I am running Ubuntu 12.04 on my Toshiba Chromebook 2 via crouton (I'm using the xfce4 desktop enviroment so don't give me Unity fixes) and I am trying to run a .jar program through OpenJDK6. I just ...

I've recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 it was working fine unless I messed up with a command. I change all user permissions(as they call ago permission in Ubuntu) by running command sudo chmod -R 777 /. ...

I changed permission of folder by chmod -R 775 example and now I want change it to previous permission mod, but I don't know what was that number instead of 755.
That folder is my project folder and ...

I just installed Android Studio, but I can only start it with root permissions: sudo ./studio.sh otherwise it fails with Error: Could not find or load main class com.intellij.idea.Main
I am not sure ...

I'm using umask in fstab settings. What I know is if i set 755 with chmod, the permission will be rwxr-xr-x. But, when I use umask in fstab with 755 value, permission that i get is ----w--w-. Giving ...

Is there a way to go into my home directory and recursively set files and directories to match my umask setting? The issue is, way back when I started using linux, I didn't understand permissions. In ...

Today I used sudo chmod +x * -R in my $HOME folder, actually I didn't want to use it in $HOME folder, it was an accident. Afterthat I tried to use sudo chmod -x * to fix it. But now, I couldn't open ...

We have recently taken ownership of a Linux server, on the server is a site creation script which works but seems to be missing the necessary chmod folder permissions (755?).
I think we need to add a ...

I will start this question with I'm a noob and I broke linux. Probably shouldn't have ran the command I did but now I cannot use sudo for anything not sure how to undo fix what I did.
The command I ...

I am having Problems converting user rights. I want to assign the following rights to certain files/folders but dont know hat to translate them into a format which chmod will work with like chmod 755.
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After I create a new Virtual Machine, when I start it, it shows following error:
Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Milad.
Failed to load VMMR0.r0 (VERR_SUPLIB_WORLD_WRITABLE).
Result ...

One of my script is making new .sh files in /tmp/ folder how can I setup that all new files in /tmp/ folder will get chmod -x automaticaly because my script is failing when trying to run scripts in ...

I have an entire folder dedicated to python scripts.
I'm tired of doing chmod on every new python script that I write.
Is there a way to make every file inside my folder executable if it is a python ...

I first installed windows(Four disks: C, D, E, F) several years ago when I was naive. Later, I met the ubuntu and allocated some space to her.
Now, I fall in love with open source and ubuntu so I use ...

I am new to ubuntu. while working on terminal unfortunately i typed the comment sudo chmod -R 777 / from root so it prints lot of lines with not permitted strings at end..but after some seconds the ...